Ad payment should be public

Dear Editor,It’s just wrong. Secret campaign cash should have no place in our American democracy. But now we are seeing huge sums of money from secret sources going into campaign advertising, much of it the negative advertising that poisons the airways.Special interests are spending millions and millions of dollars in this election and it threatens to drown out the voices of individual voters. And because of changes in the law, there are no disclosure requirements — even foreign government corporations could be funding these ads.The League of Women Voters has been calling attention to secret money being ...

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